"Western capitalist societies have given up on rational thinking. They embrace junk science and junk economics and adopt wealth-destroying postmodern pseudo-economics, which teaches that taxpayer subsidies can produce desirable 'economic transformation' and faster growth. Pigs may also fly. Climate change has cowed once great powers into meekly surrendering sovereignty and independent thought to unelected bureaucrats in Geneva." Withering refections on Paris climate conference by Maurice Newman in The Australian.